Aaargh!!!

[endlessrarities]

It's turned into one of those days.

I had a volunteer helping me with some finds work today - it was quite rewarding, six sherds of medieval/early modern pot were weeded out of the modern pot bag and escorted briskly into the med pot box where they belonged, and a fragment of clay tobacco pipe was also moved in a similar fashion.

Right in the middle, The Boss came in, wanting to edit another paper.  It was one of the short ones, so rather stupidly, I put it off until about forty minutes before home time.

That was fine to begin with.  It was one of the short ones, and I'd assumed nothing could go wrong.  Until I turned over, and saw the mass of pencilled comments that I'd written.  We wound up bickering endlessly about the definition of early prehistory versus later prehistory in a Scottish context, and then there was all the hassle of properly defining timber-post enclosures of the Neolithic, etcetera, etcetera.

So now I'm running late and it's the Writers' Group tonight.

Aaargh!! indeed!
 

Comments

[jandersoncoats.livejournal.com]

Short papers are always the worst. Always.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

At least this particular paper didn't take 4 hours to sort out...

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

It's all going on in your world!

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

It certainly is!

[red-trillium.livejournal.com]

I've done that at work, put something off thinking it would be a quick one and then end up having it turn into a huge issue. I hate it when I do that.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a pain, isn't it?

[readthisandweep.livejournal.com]

I read, in a Scottish context; my brain said, 'in a Scottish accent.'

And now I have an image of Rab C Nesbitt arguing with Amy Pond.

Enjoy your writing group. I wish I had one...

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry to destroy the illusion... Both the arguing parties had English accents!